Research Priorities Workshop 2024 – Outcomes Report

The Research Priorities Workshop (RPW) brought together experts from academia, industry, and government to identify and prioritise future research directions with regard to hydrogen safety. Over two days, participants engaged in presentations and discussions covering key areas such as transportation and storage, ignition phenomena, cryogenic hydrogen, risk assessment methodologies and others. A critical component of the workshop was the prioritisation exercise, during which attendees voted on the most urgent and impactful areas for future research. This document summarises the workshop’s activities, including the prioritisation results, which will serve as input to guide global hydrogen safety research efforts. The combined rankings from industry and non-industry stakeholders highlighted Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and Reliability Data as the top priority, followed closely by Mitigation, Sensors, and Hazard Prevention, and Phenomena Understanding and Modelling. Regulations Codes and Standards followed immediately with a particularly high ranking from the industry representatives. These priorities reflect a strong collective focus on those topics to ensure hydrogen’s safe and scalable adoption. The insights and recommendations gathered during the RPW are important for shaping the strategic research priorities necessary to support the safe commercialisation of hydrogen technologies.